scare
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Her remarkable lack of experience may help explain why Graham didn’t scare anyone out of the race when she announced her plan to keep the seat.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
A scare occurred Saturday at Los Angeles Southwest College in San Pedro, where a loud noise triggered a stampede out of the stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
A wave of cheap and powerful Chinese open-weight AI models is causing a scare among investors in the AI boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Werro survived an almighty scare on Thursday when she suffered a nasty fall in her semi-final, before later being reinstated in the competition.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Januka tells this like a horror story, the kind you scare your friends with in the middle of the night.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
The prospect that the government can “take your house” if you are on Medicaid scares some people away from applying for benefits in the first place.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Writer-director Jacob Chase, who previously made the 2020 horror film “Come Play,” downplays gore in favor of jump scares and mildly diverting set pieces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
“The scares are not good for everybody else, but sometimes they can really drive business for us,” Cook said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
He has also survived health scares, notably a fall in his bathroom in 2024 that caused a brain bleed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
“I guess we’ve got no choice,” Johnson said, “but it scares the death out of me.”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
"She felt 'why should she run?' Although she was scared she still felt kind of protected with the kids."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
But Ren said there are nights when his daughter refuses to sleep and tells him she's scared.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
That we see the group start scared for their lives, and then watch as they embrace their place in the infinite agony to the point that it becomes comical, is remarkable.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
“I hadn’t been working in 16 months. And the name of that position they hired me for—‘fiscal specialist’—that name just scared me!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
I’m so scared of upsetting her again that I don’t know what to talk about.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
A series of military exercises taking place in empty buildings across the Southland are scaring residents and rattling neighbors as the sound of gunfire rings out in the dark and troops descend from helicopters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
“Higher mortgage rates are scaring off some buyers, but that’s opening the door for others,” Chen Zhao, Redfin’s head of economics research, said in a statement.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
Resisting AI innovation is as wrongheaded as overselling its immediate impact and needlessly scaring American workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
StepChange said this was counterproductive, scaring people who can't, rather than won't, pay.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026
The look in his eyes was scaring me.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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